What Odds at City Hall: 10 April 2023
International Place is getting a fence and trees, the Majestic Theatre is getting some dazzle, and some city employees get a pay increase.
International Place is getting a fence and trees, the Majestic Theatre is getting some dazzle, and some city employees get a pay increase.
It’s National Poetry Month, parklets are coming, and a deal with NAPE 7808 is ratified.
By-Laws for pools and signage are updated, an upcoming race gets the roads cleared, and a yoga studio might be coming to Water Street.
Crown land is leased, Naloxone kits for City staff, there’s uproar over the housing plans at 20 Janeway Place and plans for Mount St. Francis Monastery apartments move forward.
A psychiatry clinic is coming to the east end and techNL’s Innovation Centre has permit fees waived- and a position on the Shea Heights Community Centre Board of Directors is filled.
More tiny homes coming to St. John’s, Quidi Vidi is getting its summer Wharf back, and grade 5 students have named the City’s snow plows.
There’s parking relief, travel expenses approval, but mostly it was Council signing off $1.7 M in Community and Capital Grants - to this reporter's joy!
Code of Conduct is debated and approved, Rogers has a telecommunications tower approved and Council gives a boost to their travel per diem.
Council is closer to adopting its code of conduct, a proposed apiary is abuzz, and security is coming to embattled parks.
Some workers are getting a wage bump and buckle up, we’re talking about traffic calming, and Council is planning to bring in a Code of Conduct - just in time!